Alcohol-Free Advantage Podcast with Andy Ramage

17498 - Life's great challenge is to overcome our short-term thinking bias

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Days Left On Earth: 17498

Almost all our instincts favour the short term. 

The short term is easy. 

It’s easy to eat the cake, it’s hard to resist it. 

It’s easy to drink, it’s hard not to.

It’s easy to be negative; it’s hard to be positive

It’s easy to skip the exercise class today and hard to show up consistently for the next 50 years.

Stop the rot

It is bullshit to think that I will do it perfectly tomorrow. 

Tomorrow never comes, we only ever have today.

So what will you do today?